New York, NY (Rotters)- In a vote of 3,100,000 to 100,000 yesterday, the members of a massive nationwide progressive political action group voted overwhelmingly to place a second ad in the New York Times this weekend condemning the U.S. Congress for wasting time condemning them over their previous ad condemning General David Petraeus as “General Betray us”. The ad implies that both houses of Congress, in particular the leadership, are “Ass-kissing little chickenshits”, a term which has been used to refer to General Petraeus by his superiors in the past.
Congress has vowed to convene a special session this weekend to vote on another condemnation of the latest ad. Preliminary polling of the Senate indicates that the condemnation would pass handily with 80 votes for and 20 votes against. This margin guarantees that there would be no veto from the president.
The White House refused to directly comment on either the ad or Congress’s proposed response. “Unlike the blatantly partisan smear directed at General Petraeus, they may actually have a point here,” stated White House spokesperson Dana Perino. “The President is happy to see the national dialogue gravitate towards these more important and debatable issues, but is clearly disappointed over the language.”
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In all seriousness, I hope MoveOn will do an ad (with a bit of care) responding to the senate censure of the first amendment.
Well, I didn’t think their original ad was that great until it pissed off Bush so much, then they got my support for it. And it certainly highlighted that congress cares more about politics than about truly supporting our troops, either.
I am mostly ashamed of BOTH parties for not being honest about the reasons for this war or for the lack of true support for our troops in fighting it.
The fact that we’ve passed all costs along to future generations rather than asking the rich to rescind their tax cuts to support the costs of our hopeless grab for oil just says it all to me – we are using the resources of tomorrow to pay for our excessive lifestyle today – including our dependency on oil to support a sprawling, unsustainable method of living in this country that is even now collapsing as we speak. Our housing crunch is just the latest system of the imploding, collapsing, unsustainable suburban lifestyle of most Americans.
And yes, I’m one of the rich suburbanites. But then my 1344 sq ft house seems rather small within the hills of surrounding McMansions. Still, I long for the day when I don’t have to live in the land of idiot suburban Republicans!
yes, donna. thank you for your response above. oh, i long to be less angry. yours, naomi